Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers (20 March 1928-27 February 2003) was an American Presbyterian pastor who was best known as the creator, composer, producer, head writer, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001. Born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, he began working for NBC as a producer in 1951 and became a Presbyterian minister in 1963. Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children, and he began to write and perform local Pittsburgh-area shows for youth, and he became a television icon due to his kind and neighborly persona as "Mr. Rogers". He was a lifelong Republican, and he died in 2003.